Soldiers
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in the texts
Cyropaedia
Soldiers are the commander's followers, requiring supplies, training, obedience, care, discipline, and tactical direction.
So never be careless, but think out at night what your men are to do for you when day comes, and in the daytime think out how the arrangements for the night may best be made.
And in his campaigns also, if they fall in the summer time, the general must show that he can endure the heat of the sun better than his soldiers can, and that he can endure cold better than they if it be in winter;
But, father, when once your soldiers had supplies and were well and able to endure toils, and when they were practised in the arts of war and ambitious to prove themselves brave, and when they were more inclined to obey than to disobey, under such circumstances do you not think it would be wise to desire to engage the enemy at the very first opportunity?
Letters
Soldiers provisioned by Aburgius in the barbarian land.
That you flash like the stars, rising now in one part of the barbarian land, now in another — now furnishing provisions to the soldiers, now appearing before the emperor in splendid array — the report that is herald of good things does not cease to announce to us.
Against Conon
Soldiers in the garrison who came when Conon's sons attacked the tent.
yet so far from desisting, or being ashamed of their acts, they burst in upon us that very evening as soon as it grew dark, and, beginning with abusive language, they proceeded to beat me, and they made such a clamor and tumult about the tent, that both the general and the taxiarchs came and some of the other soldiers, by whose coming we were prevented from suffering, or ourselves doing, some dama …
Institutes of Roman Law
Roman soldiers, who by imperial constitutions were exempted from the ordinary formalities and incapacities governing civilian wills.
A military will, executed without the ordinary formalities, only remained valid during a year after discharge from service.
But from these strict rules in the execution of a will soldiers, in consideration of their extreme ignorance of law, have by imperial constitutions a dispensation.
This statement of Gaius respecting a will of castrense peculium is inadvertently transferred to Justinian’s Institutes, 2, 10, 9, but is inconsistent with a dictum of Ulpian’s in the Digest:
Apologeticum
Roman military figures described both as extorting enemies of Christians and, elsewhere, as Christian believers.
out of extortion, the soldiers;
We, on the contrary, can produce a protector, if the letters of Marcus Aurelius, that most weighty emperor, be sought out, in which he testifies that the Germanic drought was broken by a rain obtained, as it chanced, through the prayers of Christian soldiers.